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Klebsiella pneumoniae, E coli, and Acinetobacter all show increasing signs of resistance.

Report finds some encouraging trends in resistance, but also notes increasing consumption of anitbiotics.

Steps include added lab capacity, a sequencing database, and boosts for drug development.

Half of the sick people interviewed had made something homemade with flour before becoming ill, with some using a General Mills brand.

Two strains of bacteria resistant to different antibiotics can protect each other when both drugs are present, the study finds.

To preserve cultures as a key disease detection tool, the CDC recommends that labs do them whenever the faster test suggests a bacterial infection.

The new, worrisome MCR-1 resistance gene has been detected in 6 more nations.